[ILUG] disk to disk cd copying

[Johno Sullivan]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Niall wrote:

>Hmm . . CD to CD copying involves reading CD, making an ISO fs from it to
>stdout and piping that to a CD recording process. Presumably you're going
>to need at least as much free VM as the size of the CD plus some for
>overhead.

I doubt thats absolutely necessary.. I moved >4Gb of files from one disk
to another through std{in,out} with 128mb of swapspace..
tar cf - dir | (cd /newdir ; tar xf -)
I don't think it even used swap!

johno